Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 20150311 Fiqh Class.mp4
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So there are 2
concepts.
There are 2 concepts with regards to Qadr
that a person should remember and think about.
One is called Tawhid, and the other is
called or.
So it's part of our aqidah that Allah
allows whoever he wishes to to go astray.
And that
process of allowing someone to go astray is.
And he does so by his justice,
Meaning nobody is allowed to go astray except
for
through Allah's
justice that that person be allowed to go
astray.
Now what does this mean through Allah justice?
Ultimately
to reduce all the long discussions and all
of the long
research
and speculation
into the issue.
Ultimately,
it boils down to the fact that we
discussed before that Allah made everyone from
nothing.
Here come come sit here. There's chairs over
your tongue.
Allah
made everyone from nothing.
Here, I'll get have this up. Let me
give you my key the keys to the
office. You can go grab a chair from
the office.
Take this one more. No. Just you can
sit next to me. It's okay.
It comes again back to the issue that
Allah
He created everything from nothing, so his ownership
over everything is complete.
He can do whatever he wishes to with
his property.
And so if Allah
allows a person to go astray,
this is his justice. This is something people
have these kind of bizarre types of hang
ups.
They say, oh,
how about, you know, Jim from class?
He's such a good person. He's a wonderful
person. He's nice to everybody, and he's good
to his parents. And he goes to church,
and he believes in God. And he, you
know, he doesn't even believe in the trinity,
and he, you know, gives all of his
money and charity,
and he's so helpful and blah blah blah.
Are you telling me if he knows about
Islam and he doesn't accept it, that he's
going to jahanam forever?
And we say what? It's not our job,
it's not our duty, nor is it our
privilege or right to pass judgment over individuals.
What happens with a person? Who they are?
Who's good? Who's
bad? You don't even have the ability to
make that decision.
Who's a good person and who's a bad
person? Oh, Jim's such a good person. Why
is he going to jam them? The first
part is that we realize that we don't
even have the ability to make that much
of a decision, who's a good person or
a bad person.
Beyond that, the the judgment of who's going
to jahannam and who's going to jannah,
we vouchsafe that to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
With the exception of what? The exception that
we know that Allah says that he will
not forgive anybody
who dies on shirk, and he will not
forgive anybody who dies on kuvar. Who those
people are, Allah knows
best, so we don't have to. We're not
neither is there any benefit in us doing
so, nor are we allowed to, nor are
we supposed to talk about Jim or other
individuals
like him or unlike him. Rather, we say
whoever dies on Kufr or whoever dies on
Shirk, Allah Ta'ala himself
informed us in his book that those people
he won't forgive them. And his word is
truth. His word is and that's it.
Now the next hang up that people have
is that, you know, why did they get
to the point where they're asking these questions
about Jim or about people like that? The
way they got to that point is that
they had a problem in there,
and they're aqidah.
And that problem was a, that that either
they thought that they knew more than Allah
knows
or they thought that they have more mercy
than Allah
or they thought that they have more justice
than Allah
And this is again an aqidah problem because
we said that justice is what Allah defines
it as.
Knowledge
completely belongs to him. It doesn't belong to
you and I. And it is our belief
that Allah is more merciful to all of
his creation
than one's own mother is.
After that, whoever Allah chooses to to to
punish
or whoever Allah chooses to
burn in the fire, or whoever Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala doesn't accept from. This is Allah
decision
For you to think somehow in the middle
that you have more mercy than that than
than Allah.
This is this is a hang up of
our own.
There's many people have hang ups with the
deen. They say, I can't believe
so many people are going to be punished
in the hellfire. This is your own hang
up. This is my own hang up. This
is not something that has to do with
this is something to do with that has
to do with the Islam that that the
Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us.
Brother Sayid Muhammad SAW
had
more
hope in the mercy of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala than anybody else, and he also understood
that Allah
has more power over his creation. He understood
this more than anyone else understood it. So
what do we say? We say that a
person who is sent to the hellfire ultimately
ultimately Allah has the right to send whoever
to the hellfire
because that's his right with his entire creation.
No doubt that the one who he sends
to the hellfire
did something to deserve it. No doubt that
that person did something to deserve it, but
whatever they did to deserve it, sometimes it's
so obscure
from the eyes of an external observer.
Someone from the outside won't know what that
is.
That people may grapple with it and have
a hard time. And what we have to
remind ourselves is what? Is that Allah
will not send somebody down the path to
the fire except for with a good reason.
He knows better than us. And even if
we don't see a reason or even if
whatever reason is there, we couldn't even imagine
that there could be such a reason that
that person deserves something. We should know at
the at the end of all of it
that Allah has the right to punish anybody.
He created
because he's the one who created them. So
any punishment that any person gets is from
the of Allah.
You have no blessing except for from Allah.
What's further than that? Even your good deeds
are a favor from Allah.
Now tell me if somebody gives gives a
$1,000,000,000
in charity. You have these crazy Bill Gates
and,
Shun Ho, this,
the Facebook guy and
Warren Buffett and all these people. They're giving
1,000,000,000 of dollars in charity,
albeit over a long period of time, and
the numbers massage certain ways in order to
make it not as impressive at the end
of it. But it's still a lot more
than you and I will give with so
much sincerity.
Right?
A person might might, you know, wonder, oh,
that's, you know, that person, surely, there should
be no reason that person be punished for
anything.
The fact of the matter is that even
the
the fact that Allah gave them so much.
Allah gave them so much so that they
could give in charity.
This is a in and of itself a
favor that Allah
gave them. So they all lie even more
than a normal person does. Because you and
I didn't receive that favor from Allah
ta'ala. And the fact that someone would receive
a favor like that from Allah
and then afterward choose not to thank him
for it. This is in fact a a
a sin worse than a sin that a
poor man could commit on on their own.
You have to understand that even the good
deeds a person does, the good deeds a
person does is a gift from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. It is sufficient for a person
that they should deserve to go to the
hellfire,
That they attribute all of their own good
deeds to themselves and not to Allah.
In fact, this is the condition, the of
Shaitan.
Shaitan, they they it comes in the
that there is not a mold there or
shib it in. There's not a hands breath
worth of place in the heavens or in
the earth except for he made to Allah.
The the the student of the angels that
he sought knowledge from all of the angels.
He was a student
for 1000 of years. He studied the the
sacred knowledge and studied about this this this
a creation of Allah
and studied Allah about Allah
about spiritual matters. He did all of these
things only in the end to attribute his
righteousness to himself
and not to attribute it to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and it made him. It made
him a.
Shaitan,
the most cursed. So a person should never
wonder why is a person
going to be punished in the hellfire despite
their good deeds.
If they're in Kufr, if a person is
in Kufr, that means that even their good
deeds become a bad deed or an affront
to
Allah because they're not showing to Allah for
what they had. So Allah
whoever he sends to the fire. It's our
that we that he sends that person
to the fire through his justice.
This
this process of and what is this?
We don't say Allah forces a person, okay,
now you commit zina, you commit kufra, you
commit you do all of these sins, and
the person says, I don't want to do
it, but they start doing it anyway.
Rather, it's more akin to, like, for example,
you have you have you have a a
a a,
you know, 2 people
that are walking right next to each other.
Right? And you know the person walking next
to you, and you know them very well,
and you're talking to them, and you see
in front of them, there's, like, an uncovered
manhole. You know, sewer manholes, and there's uncovered
manhole. And you see that your friend is
walking straight to the manhole,
and you have an idea in your head
that that friend doesn't know that that manhole
is there and uncovered,
and you could say something to him,
but you decide not to. And lo and
behold, after, you know, like 30 seconds, your
French falls into the manhole and disappears.
This is what is indeed. The language of
the Arabs,
is to leave, leave, leave, leave your friend
high and dry. Right? To leave them high
and dry, not to not to help them
out when they need help. And so this
is the idea with everybody. That all of
the creation, we need help from Allah
constantly.
Do you ever wonder there's a hadith, all
these hadith of the prophet
regarding the angels of mercy that surround a
person
and that a dog if there's a dog
in the house, the angels of mercy will
not enter into the house or if there
are pictures up in the house, pictures of
animate life, the angels of mercy will not
enter into that house. What does that mean?
What are those angels? What's the point of
those angels? Right? There are all sorts of
competing effects that pull on a person's heart
and on a person's
from the unseen.
And so if you're in a good place,
then good effects come. You come to the
Masjid
and good thoughts come. By and large, I'm
going to read salat.
I'm going, I would love to read the
Quran. I would love to do something good.
I would love to make Tawba etcetera. Maybe
some bad thoughts come because it's you and
I, whatever we have with us, we bring
it with us into the masjid as well.
But by and larger person is protected from
the full brunt of the the attack of
Shaitan when they come into a a good
place, when a in a place with good
effects.
Is what? Imagine
Allah says, fine. You're you did all these
good things on your own. Go fend for
yourself.
So a person, all the protections around their
heart are removed. Like the lampshade is removed
from a candle. You know what a candle
is. Right? The candle is something
a little bit of wind comes, it'll blow
it out.
You put a lampshade around the candle, why?
Right? One of the main reasons for putting
a lampshade around a candle is to protect
it from the wind blowing,
to protect it from the wind blowing. Now,
does lifting the shade off of
a candle, does it put the fire out?
No. It's the wind that puts it out.
But if you lift the shade, the candle's
all of a sudden in great peril.
That's what the the likeness is, the
is that
Allah
if he ever elects to remove the protection
of your iman that he provides you. Right?
If you ever elects to remove. Right? You're
in the security business.
You know, if if you're, you know, have,
like, armored car driving through the hood and
you have all these gunmen and whatnot, and
you're in the, like, the worst part of
the south side,
you know, and the person the driver says
something to annoy you. You know, it's a
different company or whatever. He says, I'm not
gonna pay you or whatever. He said, okay.
No problem. You and your boys just leave
and it's the driver that's just there unarmed.
And it says, whatever, armored car cash service.
And there's, like, 50 guys on the stoop
in front of you, and it's been a
red light for the last, you know, 3
minutes. What's gonna happen?
They're gonna get jacked.
Did you jack them? No. No. But what
you did is called well, obviously, you didn't
do it, but in the example,
right, in the example, that's what's called.
You say, okay. You wanna do this on
your own. You're big. You're not gonna pay
me. You're gonna talk back to me.
Go here. Go ahead. Deal with it on
your own. Right? So that's what
is. Whoever Allah does that to do that's
from his justice. It's completely within his rights
to do it and he won't do it
to a person and tell somebody,
somebody does something so stupid that they earn
that. They earn that. They say, okay, you
wanna do it on your own? You don't
need Allah. You don't need his help. Go
do it on your own now.
And whatever that happens, that's the justice of
Allah.
Let nobody blame Allah for it. Everybody who
the happens
to, it's their own fault.
And what are we supposed to learn from
this? This is not like, oh, looks stupid.
Sinners. They, you know, happen to them. They
deserve it. All of us should read into
this that this could happen to any of
us.
We should be very careful about what we
do. We should be very careful about what
we say.
Allah sees us. It's time for fajr. You
know, he sees when you hit the snooze
button instead of waking up, you know, or
when you turn it off instead of waking
up, he he sees that when it's time
to eat or drink something, when it's time
when someone gave you too much change back,
somebody gave you 50¢ too much back at
the store,
You could go give it back to the
person or they'll never notice. Or you could
sell Islam for 50¢,
and he sees you when you do that.
Every single thing a person does like that,
Allah
sees it. A person should always be afraid.
You Allah
that that that you Allah protect me from
ever being put in a position where I
get that I get that thing that you
remove the lampshade around my iman, that that
you removed the security of around my iman,
the the armor from my iman. Yeah, Allah,
don't ever do that to me because if
you leave me alone like that, I'll never
make it. It's a difficult world. It's a
tough life to get through.
Everyone should see that and remember that when
they do their actions and remember the actions
that they did in the past as well.
Whatever actions that they did in the past
as well. Seek forgiveness from Allah to Allah.
So many things a person thinks, oh, maybe
it wasn't even a sin.
Yeah. If you have to think about it,
then you should seek forgiveness for it.
If you have to think about it, then
you should seek forgiveness for it because the
fact that you had to think about it
alone means it's gonna look bad.
If a person sought forgiveness for something and
it turned out not to be a sin
on the day of judgement.
What's gonna happen? Is there any loss? No.
Toba is free.
There's no loss. In fact, it will be
written as a good deed for you. Because
of your fear of Allah,
even your good deeds, you sought forgiveness for
them. But on the flip side, what if
it is a sin, you
didn't repent from it? It could be a
problem over there. It could be an even
bigger problem over here. So people oftentimes people
there's the human psychology has all kind of
self defense mechanisms.
This is what the nafs is, the ego,
the nafs.
The nefs is there to make you always
feel that you're number 1. Everything you do
is wonderful. You know, the world, you know,
would love you if they could only understand
how wonderful and unique of a snowflake you
are and all of this other nonsense.
The nafs is there to tell you all
of those things. Right? Okay. So nobody can
function without an ego. If somebody has
no, right, they'll say,
I'm gonna pray. Oh, I don't think I'm
so weak. Even if I tried, I wouldn't
make it. You know? That's you're not supposed
to destroy the nuffs to that point. At
that point, you need to see a psychiatrist
and probably take some pills as well.
Right? But you're supposed to break the nuts
to the point where at least
at least when it tries to make justifications
for things that
have no justification
or justification for things that are doubtful,
that you should be able to pull it
off and say no. This is something that
was doubtful.
I seek
forgiveness from Allah, my lord, for every sin,
and I turn to him in repentance.
Why? Because any one of those things that
we don't think it's a big deal. The
the the psychiatric self defense mechanism a person
has
inside their head,
that's the self defense mechanism is very harmful
because it will oftentimes make our sins
seem to us like not a sin or
like not a big deal.
The believer doesn't defend himself. Why? Because
Allah is the one who defends the people
who believe.
You don't need to defend yourself. If you
did something bad, make Tawba. If you did
something good, make You didn't do something even
better than that.
Allah will defend you. Don't worry about it.
It's a hadith of the prophet
said one time a man entered into the
in the presence of the messenger of Allah
And he started to,
accuse him of things and accuse him of
things that that he was not guilty of.
And he sat patiently and listened and listened
and listened.
And, he he would, you know, he just
answered very politely.
And then after a while, that man's accusations
became so much, became so much that that
became upset with him and said, look, you're
out of line. This thing you said doesn't
make sense. This thing you said doesn't and
he started arguing back with him.
And and before when the Musaidah Abu Bakr
was patient, the prophet
was smiling. And when Seyda Abu Bakr began
to
defend against the accusations by countering this man,
the Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the smile
left his face and he got up and
left the room.
Later, he asked the Messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wasallam,
why is it that when this man was
saying all these horrible things to me and
I was silent. You were smiling. And then
when I started to defend myself, you got
upset and left the room. He said
he said that when you what you didn't
see is that when you were patient and
listening to the abuse the man was giving
you. Allah sent an angel and the angel
was was was countering every single thing that
that man said.
And when you got upset and started to
yell back at the man, said the angel
left the room and Shaitan entered. And the
and Shaitan are not going to sit in
the same room at the same time.
Now, obviously, this doesn't mean, okay, somebody
accused you of murder and you have a
good alibi but I'm not going to defend
myself because you know, Allah defends the people
who believe. There's one thing that's defending yourself,
you know, giving the facts
and exonerating yourself from something wrong someone accused
you of. Then there's the other thing of
defending yourself as an, I'm a special snowflake.
How dare you accuse me of that? My
person.
My person, I'm so, like, special. How dare
you say that about me? Don't you know
how good I am?
Right? That's the thing you have to separate.
That second amount of stuff, there's no profit
in it. There's no benefit in it ever.
If somebody accuses your person and you're a
good person,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will defend you in
this world and he will defend you in
the hereafter
and he will load your sins onto your
accuser and he will load his good deeds
onto you.
And it's all for free. You didn't have
to do anything to to earn it.
But if you're a bad person
and a person came and accused you and
abused you, then Allah will make it as
a kafarah,
as a expiation
for you in this world, that you paid
for your sin in this world through this.
And
your will make that sin forgiven.
So don't defend yourself as as a self.
Right? They said that, they said that you,
Yusuf Alaihi Islam.
What does he say? He says, he says,
when the the
about the the
the the the
uh-uh
wife of the Aziz
who
who tries to, assault him.
And it's found out that she's the one
who's guilty and he's not guilty.
He says what?
He says that I don't hold my own
nafs to be blameless in this matter.
Why? Because the nafs by its very nature
is
is commanded to that which is evil. It
always commands that which is evil except for
the one that Allah has mercy on. Meaning,
Allah had mercy on me. That's why I'm
not guilty.
Otherwise, I could have been guilty.
I could have been every one of us
could have been don't ever it's very important.
Right? This is all part of our and
and it has to do with our spirituality
as well.
Anyone could have been guilty.
That's why it's a hadith of that nobody
will
will mock or jeer or look down on
a sinner because of the sin that that
person commits
except for Allah will test that person with
the same sin before he dies.
Why? Because all of us are commanded to
know the lesson that it could have been
us that did it. It could have been
us.
It's were it not for the father and
the grace of Allah, it could have been
us. That's what we're supposed to get out
of it rather than, oh, look how wonderful
we are and how horrible these people. It
could have been us. If the roles were
reversed, it could have been us.
It could have been us except for the
Rahma and the mercy of Allah.
So the so when a person hears this,
that whoever Allah allows to go go astray,
that person, he allows them to go astray
through their justice.
Instead of crying about the jahannam that you
think Jim is going to, even though you
don't know, and you were not given the
right to to even make that decision, even
if it were true.
Instead of crying over Jim's supposed,
you should cry because your that you think
you're going to is not secure.
It's not guaranteed.
You should cry for your own self. You
should cry for your own. You should cry
for that jahannam that you ascribed to Jim
that might be yours. This it comes to
the hadith of the prophet
protect all of us. That a person who
dies on iman,
Allah
will show him his the angels will show
that person in the grave, a window to
the hellfire, and show them this is the
place Allah had created for you in Jahannam.
But because you did good in this life,
Allah ta'ala has traded in its place, a
place in Jannah.
But a person should always keep that in
mind. There's a place created for every single
one of us. It's not just for Jim.
For every single one of us, we are
praying salat in the masjid and reading and
giving zakat and all of these wonderful things.
And we don't eat pork and all of
these great things. There's a place created for
every single one of us. And by Allah's
if he wishes to, he can send each
and every one of us to him. And
we should always invoke Allah by by his
by his grace, you Allah, even if we
deserve to go there. Allah, from your grace,
protect us from it because you're the one
who can. Nobody can do it other than
you. So we ask from your father. And
Allah, if somebody asks, you have a good
opinion, Allah, whoever asks him in sincerity Allah
doesn't leave anybody
empty handed.
And Allah guides whoever he wishes,
and he will
he will give them Tofik. Right? You've heard
the word Tofik as well?
Right? Remember
and are like 2 sister terms.
Is
when Allah allows you to walk into the
hole.
You can't blame him for it. It's your
own fault.
Right?
But that's what is. He wasn't he he
he decided, I I don't wanna be there
for this person. I don't wanna be there
to stop them or save them.
Is the flip side. It's the other way
around.
Is what? Is you wanna do something good.
You wanna do something good, and Allah wants
you to do it.
You know, it's like a little kid A
little kid wants to do something. You know,
wants to,
you know, say a kid you know, it's
time for salat. You know, children
oftentimes like to read salat with their parents,
like small kids. You know?
And so, like, it's time for salat,
and you get out your your prayer rug
and you lay it down. And there's another
prayer rug and the kid wants to reach
for it, you know, but his hand won't
reach.
You know? So you take the pick the
kid up and then, you know, his hand
could reach and he pulls it out, and
the kid lays his own prayer rod next
to yours and he prays with you. That's
what is.
Right? Is that you and I, we reach
for something, but our hand isn't reaching there.
So Allah picks you up and says, okay.
Get it done.
All of our good deeds are like that.
There's so many good deeds, so many people
would love to do.
I know, brother Salam, if Allah gave him
a $1,000,000,000,
he would spend all of it in the
path of Allah ta'ala. Right? But you don't
have it yet, do you? So sometimes Allah
gave it to us, sometimes doesn't give it
to us. So Sure. 1,000. $91,000 short.
Uh-huh? $91,000
Right? So, but there are so many things
also that that he he you know that
he he wants to do. He loves to
do and Allah gave him to do it.
So many things you and I want to
do and love to do. Allah gave us
to do it. How many people are here
right now
listening to the
the the the reminder of the deen of
Allah and
how many people are at home watching television.
From amongst the Muslims, it's the majority. Maybe
this is not even 1% of the community,
and maybe the Muslim community is not even
1% of Rockford.
Right? How many people are at their homes
not not right now, not hearing the remembrance
of Allah in his Rasool Allahu alaihi wa
sallam. This is toffee.
I gave you an extra special
help that other people didn't receive.
You know? And that you keep asking Allah
from his. You keep asking Allah from his
one day he'll make you do something
that that people marvel. How did that person,
how is that person able to do what
they were able to do? It was all
from the of Allah.
And if the if the if the
of Allah
happens by what? If it happens by
uh-uh Allah's justice. The of
Allah happens by his by his grace.
His grace. Grace meaning what? That he gave
you and he gave me the thing that
we didn't deserve. The thing we did nothing
to earn. There's nothing compelling him to give
it to us. But he gives it to
us because he's Allah.
It's less of a statement of how pious
and righteous we are. And more of a
statement of how how perfect
and glorious Allah is. That's what he says,
right? It's like an expression, right? The root
Sabaha means to swim.
Means to swim.
Right? And the Arabs used to used to
fear the ocean. They're not a they're not
a seafaring people until Islam.
Before Islam, they weren't a seafaring people.
Saidna Saidna Muawiyah radiallahu and who was commissioned
by
to build the 1st navy of the Muslims.
They had to hire Greeks to build the
ships for them
and to teach them how to
run the crews and things like that. Obviously,
later on, the Muslims develop a very high
maritime tradition.
There's a time when the Mediterranean Sea, the
Europeans used to post that this is the
Roman lake, and there was a time when
the Ottoman Imperial Fleet was so so feared
in the in the Mediterranean Ocean
that the combined fleets of Genoa and Venice,
they had standing orders never to engage the
Muslims in battle because it's just a good
way of wasting your ships.
They would just flee. They would have outposts.
They would see where their ships they would
just flee from battle. That's all.
Right? But the thing is that the was
something, said
the for permission to build a fleet.
Said Naomar asked his senior Sahaba what their
opinion was
about this. He asked, has anyone gone on
a ship before on a long voyage? Said,
no, Abdul Abin Mus'
He said, yes. I went on a ship
once. There was a storm. It was horrible.
We were stranded in the ocean like worms
on a piece a plank of wood. We
don't know when we're gonna sink and we're
all gonna die. Said the Hamer said, forget
it. I'm not going to make any believer
uh-uh
mount a ship and do anything like that.
Said now said now as man
who was more open minded.
He didn't use to try out new things.
Right? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
There's a lot of Hikma in that. Sayidna
Umar was more willing to try to
to to, trust his young and talented commanders,
and so he trusted Said no
says, okay, son. You wanna build the ship?
Build the ships. Go ahead and build them.
But one thing I'll say is that anyone
who goes on any of those ships,
I won't force them. You have to ask
them if they wanna go or if they
don't. If somebody doesn't wanna stay on the
ship, he considered like a that they would
make a person, go on the ship because
of the dangers that they felt from it.
Why? Because Arabs had an aversion to the
sea. So
when he says, right, meaning, it means like
Allah is like unattainably
far far away.
He's not like you and he's not like
me.
He's unattainably far away. If someone were to
say, oh, look. You're in Alaska. There's Russia.
Swim there. It doesn't work that way.
It doesn't work that way. You cannot swim
like that.
Maybe someone does still sing their their praises
in song for, like, centuries.
Normal people cannot do stuff like that. So
the when we say that's who Allah is.
So when you ask Allah for his father,
when you ask Allah for his father, don't
ask because of who you are.
Don't ask because who who I
am. Ask because who he is.
Because if we go through our record,
if we add, we're gonna end up in
the department.
You ask because who you are. If we
ask because who we are, it's not gonna
work out. But if we ask him because
of who he is, he is.
He's the one who describes himself that his
grace is is magnificent.
It's huge. It's amazing. It's beyond your
ability to appreciate and beyond my ability to
appreciate.
So ask from his father. Don't ask because
how wonderful we are. Whoever receives that
will allow them to do what a normal
person is not able to do in their
lifetime
in terms of goodness and righteousness
and and and in terms of benefiting themselves
and others in this world and the hereafter.
Every person,
it will be made
will be facilitated
by Allah's facilitation
to that which Allah
knew regarding that person's fate.
In the past and based on what Allah
wishes for that person
from or from Saeed.
If that person is going to be happy
or if that person is going to be
wretched.
And happiness is not happy as in, like,
you know, Pharrell Williams and I'm dancing like
a moron
on a YouTube video.
Happy is the one who is happy forever.
You know, some people you see some people
are very serious about their deen in this
world. You see them praying all the time,
maybe never a smile on their face, always
reading Quran,
never engaging in chitchat.
Obviously, to be serious all the time is
not the sunnah, but this is something that
overcomes certain people because the deen is something
very serious. It overcomes them. You cannot blame
every person for not being perfectly like the
prophet
all the time. But everyone knows somebody who's
so serious about deen. They're just very serious
people. You'll see them.
They'll be dancing like the people dance in
this world. You'll see them. You'll be surprised
to say, you? You're so serious. The dunya.
How come you're dancing like a like a
teenager?
Your music and wine and all of these
things. It looks
strange. Where's your beard?
You're wearing all these beautiful clothes. What happened
to you?
Say, listen.
That time that time is done. That time
is gone.
This time, Allah made for us to enjoy.
Maybe other people will go to Jannah also,
but they won't enjoy as much as those
people will enjoy.
Those people, they'll be like normal Jannah people,
then they'll be the super guys who are,
like, party. That's it. You know, like in
this world, some people party harder than others.
You know? I like to show up on
time, and I like to be the last
person who leaves. I like to bring things.
If someone brings something to eat or drink,
I'll eat it and drink it, and it
shows.
I won't say no to anybody because I
like to party hard.
Some people, you invite them to a party.
You know? They'll take a 100 excuses to
stay home. Oh, I gotta review for this.
I have to study. Listen, man. Don't worry.
Until I went to Madras, I never studied
for anything.
I used to have, for the time, not
even go to class. I just take the
exams, and I'm done. I don't care about
that. Right? You know, I have to go
to work tomorrow. Don't worry. You'll wake up.
You know? 6 hours of sleep, 4 hours.
You'll make it. Don't worry. You know? Some
people are like that. Right? You'll see those
people over there. The those people. Right? The
the one Allah so that's the happy one
is the one who's happy like that forever.
Not the one who's happy over here like
that. And the wretched one is the one
protect
us. The one who's wretched in the what
are we going to do if Allah writes
us amongst them?
A
person will be asked after a minute in
the fire.
Did you have any any good? Was there
any good or any enjoyment you had in
this world? They'll say, yeah, Allah, we never
enjoyed anything in our life ever. Nothing nothing
good ever happened to us. People spend 1,000,000,000
of dollars partying.
Right? 1,000,000,000 of dollars or types of wealth
you and I cannot even imagine.
And people like us, simple people like us,
small amount of money, make us happy. So,
oh, look how nice the car is, how
nice the house is. There are people who
have destroyed the wealth of nations,
the wealth of entire nations. What happens?
Dies. They found out that person has 1,000,000,000
of dollars in the, you know, in their
accounts stashed away. A $1,000,000,000 is a lot
of money.
Who can eat, you know, how many you
live for a 100 years?
If you live for a 100 years, that
means you have to spend how many you
have to spend? You have to spend,
a $10,000,000
every year.
Right? If you have $10,000,000
every year, how many how many dollars do
you have to spend every day? You know,
you have to you have to literally, you
have to spend, like,
$100,000 a day.
Who can eat a
$100,000 worth of food? Find the most expensive
food in the world. Who can eat a
$100,000? Nobody can do it. Who can live
in a $100,000
worth of house every day? You build a
new house and then you can't do it.
It's impossible. It doesn't you know? So after
after a certain so people destroyed so much.
Those people enjoyed so much, never got caught,
never no revolution, no Arab Spring or Ajam
Spring or anything.
Irish Spring, nothing.
They got away scot free in this world.
Right? Those people, they're gonna be asked, well,
did you ever enjoy anything? I said, no.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I never enjoyed anything ever. I never knew
enjoyment.
In my existence, I never knew enjoyment. That's
the wretched that we're talking about. Those people,
Allah
knew who they were from the the beginning,
and
Allah made it easy for them to every
one of them to go to the slot
that they were assigned by Allah. Again, like
we said before,
you know, the knowledge of Allah having control
over all of these things.
It's simply there so that you and I
can ask Allah, you Allah, You're the one
who's in control of all of this. You
Allah, please don't make me from amongst that
you wrote to be the wretched ones.
Please don't make me amongst those who you
wrote to be the wretched ones. The rest
of it, trying to jump into the system
and deprogram it and understand why Allah did
everything he did or how he did everything
he did. You and I are never going
to be able to understand it, and there's
no point in it other than trying to,
confuse ourselves.
It's an exercise in madness.
Allah is too exalted
that anything should ever happen in his dominion
that he doesn't wish to happen.
Right? So this is something that we
that we say what? We say that this
is beyond our definition of Allah,
that anything should happen in this world that
he didn't want to happen.
There's
but but it doesn't make a lot of
sadder in the sense that it happened and
he didn't want it to happen.
Do you understand what I'm saying? If someone
takes a teacher gives an exam
and a student gets questions wrong on it.
Right? It's not that the it's it's it
doesn't you know, the teacher will fail the
student.
Right? Allah
so the teacher is not it doesn't mean
that the the teacher is,
what you call somehow
in a dilemma
that what the student wrote just because they
wrote it, it becomes right somehow.
No. The teacher knew that the student may
have even known that the student is gonna
fail, and the teacher allowed the student to
fail.
And even though the the student writing the
wrong answer is not something the teacher wants
in the sense that, like, if the teacher
were asked, you know, do you want this
kid to get get it wrong? No. It
would be better if the kid got it
right. I would prefer that.
But if if the teacher were afraid of
students getting things wrong, then he wouldn't have
administered the exam at
all. Allah, there's certain deeds that he's pleased
with in the sense that they conform with
what what he what what
standard he established as being good.
But somebody doing something bad, there's no one
who's gonna be able to do something bad
against his will. He's and
that happened, and god was helpless to change,
or god was this and that happened, and
God was helpless to
change, or God was grieved that somebody did
this, that, and the other thing. We don't
believe that. They're Christians. I mean, the the
thing is that one of the reasons people
become atheists,
one of the reasons that people become atheists
Muslims have atheism problem. Why?
Because culturally, we're dead. So culturally, we started
to
imitate the,
civilization of the Europeans
and of the Americans.
So their problems, we make them into our
problems,
but they're not really our problems.
One of the reasons that they have a
hard time believing in god is because they
don't have they have the idea that god
is just like
a a superhuman,
but they don't have idea of Allah being
Allah truly in control like we do.
Right? What do you read? You read in
the Bible. Right? It's one of the last
words
that they
they they attributed to say Naysa alayhis
salam. Right? Say,
Allah Allah, why did you leave me behind?
Why did you leave me behind?
Right?
Right? So what? That Jesus is, like, expressing
displeasure with his own
Qadr.
He regrets his own
it doesn't it doesn't like, 7 different ways,
it makes no sense.
But the way that the one way in
particular we want to highlight with regards to
this point of is what? Is nothing happens
against Allah's Allah's will or that, you know,
oh, it happened and Allah was very grieved
by it or, you know,
it kind of took him by surprise or
took him by storm.
He's too exalted that anything should happen in
his dominion that that he doesn't like or
he doesn't allow to happen.
Right? He may not like it in the
sense that he doesn't he he doesn't accept
or he doesn't accept as a standard for
his creation
that they do certain bad things.
But the fact that they did those bad
things, he knew they were gonna do them
and he allowed them to do them so
that they can be a means for them,
for those for those creations to reach a
a destination that they were going to from
before.
This is important why Stuff is gonna happen
in your life, and it's gonna happen in
my life
that we're not happy with.
But we have to constantly remind ourselves, this
is something Allah allowed it to happen.
Allah allowed it to happen,
and there's some reassurance
that should be there for all of us,
that if he allowed it to happen and
if we believe, then there's some benefit in
it for us. There may not even be
benefit in it for the one who it
happened to.
Someone died on Kufr. There may be no
benefit in it for them, but there's benefit
in it for us. Maybe we love that
person,
but we showed patience.
This is very important. This exact thing happened
to the messenger of Allah
It comes in the hadith,
narrated by Imam Hakim
that the day of the Fatha. The Prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said
He tells the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he
brings his father to the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. His father's name
is Abu Khohafa.
He brings Abu Khohafa to the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. The messenger of
The messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
says,
Aba Bakr, why did you make this old
man, a sheikh of Quresh, come all the
way to us? If you had told us,
we would have gone to him.
Says no. He needed the the reward for,
the reward for coming to you. His father
was blind,
but he's he's he needed the reward of
going through the difficulty to come to you.
And so he came, and he put the
he took Shahada,
and then he took the oath of allegiance.
He put the 2 hand his the two
hands of his blind old aged father into
the hands of the messenger of Allah
And he and when he was putting his
hands into his hands
to take the bay'at, to take the oath
of allegiance from him, Said Abu
Bakr started to
weep,
and the prophet
asked him, yeah, Abu Bakr, why are you
weeping?
He says, because I would have rather this
day
put the hands of your uncle into your
hands.
He says, why? He says, because I know
that it would have made you happier
than
than than putting these hands into your hands.
And the Prophet
wept also, and he says, you're right.
So this happened, you know, people think that
this is like
a, like unique, but these things happened. They
happened to the messenger of Allah
But look at that. It's a beneficial it's
a benefit for him as well. Why?
Because he shows his to Allah
that, yeah, Allah, whatever you tell whatever you
decree, I'm happy with it. And whatever you,
whatever you decree, I'm happy with it, and
I'm patient with it. And whatever you choose,
I'm happier with what you choose than I
am with what I choose.
There's a statement that's attributed to saying Allah
knows best. But they say that when I
they say that he says when I make
du'a for something and it happens, I become
happier.
And when I make dua for something and
it doesn't have I become happy. And when
I make dua for something and it doesn't
happen, I become happier. Because my du'a is
my choice, and my du'a not happening is
Allah's choice,
right? And it's a it's a means for
a person to grow in rank with Allah
and grow in proximity and closeness to Allah
and grow in their imam. There's and all
of these things.
So that's why we say that that you
we must remind ourselves that
Allah by his very definition of who he
is.
He is he is the one that he
is too exalted and too high that there
could be a situation that happens in the
creation
except for that which he wishes to happen.
And so we remember that that's his choice.
And we see try to see the khair
and the good in it or at least
have patience with it because at least from
a theoretical level, we know that there's good
in it. That also there's a lot of
benefit in it, inshallah, for us.
Well,
I think this is a good place to
stop. Are there any questions?